ALS Wikipedia Page Views Up 18-Fold Since Ice Bucket Challenge

The Ice Bucket Challenge, which has dominated Facebook News Feeds with videos of people dumping ice water on themselves in support of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, has raised more than $100 million for the ALS Association since it gained traction at the end of July. But the movement has its detractors, and many wonder how many participants have actually learned about the disease, rather than simply jumping on the viral bandwagon. New data from the Wikimedia Foundation sheds some ...